R3MC: Arvo Part's Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten




Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics show

Summary: Roxanna Panufnik nominates Arvo Part's Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten, "beautifully simple and spiritual" music that she feels a strong connection to; while Paul Griffiths tells of Part's early struggle to find his own voice in Soviet Estonia and subsequent breakthrough with a radical new style he called Tintinnabuli.